In an actual free market all the corporations would act like this, because shit like this is what people want out of a business they patronize.

You will recall that there was a bit of a fuss a month or so ago when an undoubtedly-harried GameStop employee stapled some customer receipts directly to Nintendo Switch 2 boxes—and through the boxes, and into the Switch 2 units themselves. It was all quickly resolved, without lawsuits or fistfights, and with the ugliness now behind it GameStop is looking to make some proverbial lemonade by auctioning off the Switch 2 killer for charity.

No lawsuits, no fight required by affected consumers

The company made it right and turned a bad situation into a PR move that helps a charity.

I really thought we’d see some kind of ethical capitalism out of the whole GameStop thing but it never really spread.

I’m almost positive outlook can be set up to do it on its own, I was just too lazy to Google how to set it up

It’s called a dead man’s switch and there’s not really anything complicated about it.

The thing is, it’s so so simple I doubt anyone has made a full on app to do it.

Like, the people who do that stuff aren’t the type to require an app to do everything for them.

Microsoft flat out said it in an investor meeting years ago…

It’s not exactly a secret

I mean, most posts like this aren’t real to begin with if we’re talking about suspicions.

But they do get engagement so it’s worth popping in with general advice some people do need to hear.

Lately there have been some running jokes about how we’re basically a throuple already, and those jokes have been getting a little more… not-jokey.

Those jokes are almost never jokes…

If the other people were the ones starting the jokes, that’s called “testing the waters” and you might be in more of a trouble than you realize already.

Like, I get that guys don’t learn that as early as women, but most people figure it out

Yeah, the whole point was to show feudual society was fucking stupid.

No one bout a square meter of land and started going to the Queen’s brunches.

It was to mock the people that unironically wanted to be called a Lord in modern day.

I’m sure there some scams…

But that doesn’t mean they were all scams.

And I sincerely doubt one lone Chinese woman was responsible for all the companies doing it.

It depends where you are…

In Europe (primarily the UK) they sell tiny plots like that because it comes with a lordship.

So you can buy a lordship and token tiny square of land.

But they do that for the title, doing it just for land…

I dunno.

The only way I could see people go for it is if trump sells national Parks and people use this method to maintain it in its natural state.

It won’t last forever though…

A lot of the non-upgradability is the pursuit of smallest form factor. But then everyone throws a case on it anyways. Miniaturization has diminishing returns and we hit that long ago with laptops.

Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.

That’s why manufacturers are trying to push us to watches or glasses. They need to shrink the form factor to keep up the (insanely profitable) strategy of selling a brand new unit every 2 years.

Apple aggressively throttled CPUs when new models came out.

They claimed it was due to age of batteries and to prevent overheating. But then Samsungs started exploding and I think people just let it go.

Not sure if they still do it or not.

If you’re actually being sincere, you might want to ask people how to articulate your view, you’d have to let them know what your view is though. Or ask for peoples opinion on the question.

but why don’t manufacturers of basic cars just put a fancy-looking exterior onto them?

“Kit cars” are a thing…

Not sure what’s popular these days, but for a while people were putting Shelby Cobra bodies on Miatas.

It’s way more than a Miata, but way less than an authentic Shelby.

So people who just care about the looks have been doing this for decades now.

But when it happens as a production, people don’t buy it because other people recognize it for what it is, look at the PT Cruiser.

So if a couple people do it, it passes as expensive. If a lot do it, it comes off as tacky and becomes a joke.

I’m guessing the other person meant “the way it should be”

That’s a pretty safe guess considering they explicitly said that…

But I don’t think I’m going to make much ground explaining to you why they’re wrong either

Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be,

That is incorrect

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/normal

Not normal, just uhhh… maybe common.

Either you don’t know what normal is or common is if you think they’re different things…

Just to be clear…

You want me to show you a study that shows AI needs to be trained to do something?

Because I can do that, I just realized this is apple and don’t want to get in something that never ends with a fanboy.

But what would make you happy is something that shows what AI developers spend billions of dollars and violate all types of laws or n pursuit of isn’t just some optional step they can skip and it’ll still do what it does now.

Cuz thats what it sounds like youre asking for, it’s just a little hard to believe.

But others have been showing this for years…

You don’t often hear about the 17th time an experiment reaches the same conclusion.

But like I said, people will care about it. Because capitalism drives science so it matters more when a billion dollar corporation says it than countless subject matter experts.

Investors don’t listen to them, but they’ll listen to apple.

I really don’t want to give a billion dollar corporation credit for “proving” something a shit ton of people have been saying this whole time.

The only people saying this was true AI was the people who work for these companies and the investors who fell for it.

Most of the “big uses” have been literal mechanical Turks with a human pretending to be a program.

It’s just when capitalism drives science, it only matters what the wealthy say, and apple is very very wealthy

Usually (but not always) if a mod removes it, it shows up in the mod log.

But lots of people don’t get the answer they want and delete it. Part of that is you can’t disable replies. A month from now someone might see this post for whatever reason and you’d get a notification.

That’s probably playing into it